S.  R.  A.— B.  S.  7.  Issued  August  4,  1915. 

U.  S.  DEPARTMENT   OF  AGRICULTURE, 

BUREAU  OF  BIOLOGICAL  SURVEY. 

Henry  W.  Henshaw,  Chief  of  Bureau. 


SERVICE  AND  REGULATORY  ANNOUNCEMENTS. 


COLLECTION  OF  BIRDS  AND  THEIR  NESTS  AND  EGGS  ON  FEDERAL  BIRD 
RESERVATIONS  FOR  USE  OF  THE  UNITED  STATES  DEPARTMENT  OF 
AGRICULTURE. 

By  virtue  of  the  authority  conferred  upon  the  Secretary  of  Agri- 
culture by  section  84  of  the  act  of  Congress  entitled  "An  act  to  codify, 
revise,  and  amend  the  penal  laws  of  the  United  States,"  approved 
March  4,  1909  (35  Stat.,  1088),  it  is  ordered  that  on  and  after  July  15, 
1915,  the  Chief  of  the  Bureau  of  Biological  Survey  of  the  United 
States  Department  of  Agriculture,  and  such  of  his  assistants  as  may 
be  directed  by  him,  may,  at  such  times  as  he  shall  designate,  con- 
sistent with  the  laws  of  the  State  in  which  the  reservation  is  situ- 
ated, collect  birds  and  their  nests  and  eggs  for  use  in  the  official 
investigations  and  experiments  of  said  bureau,  on  any  lands  of  the 
United  States  set  apart  or  reserved  as  breeding  grounds  for  birds  by 
any  law,  proclamation,  or  Executive  order. 

In  testimony  whereof,  I  have  hereunto 
affixed  my  hand  and  the  official  seal  of  the 
United  States  Department  of  Agriculture  at 
Washington,  D.  C,  this  19th  day  of  July, 
1915. 


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